Word: nomura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Frederick Moore served the Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
...crowded hall occupying one among 20 vacant chairs on the floor. . . ." And, finally, Moore was with the Japanese Embassy in Washington through the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. In the summer of 1941 he had believed he could do nothing to restore Japanese-American relations, and told Ambassador Nomura so. But Nomura insisted that he stay. "We are in the last ditch," he admitted, "but we must continue the struggle anyway...
Japan's last Ambassador to Washington, Nomura, wavered between hope and despair throughout the last months before Pearl Harbor. "It will be a crime for these two countries to fight each other," he told Moore, adding sadly, "but the crime will be committed." And when war seemed inevitable Nomura shuffled his arguments and began to talk of Japan's strength, hoping thereby to frighten U.S. officials. "Americans," he said, "were underestimating the difficulties which he, as a naval man, knew we should have in waging war across the Pacific." He spoke of the distances, the strategic position...
Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura dispatched a courier posthaste from the embassy in Washington before his departure set reporters asleuthing. With a guard of two FBI agents the courier hustled into a closed car and whisked away. His mission: the purchase of one pair of underdrawers...
...precise moment that Mr. Hull received them, the news was being received at the White House that Japan had attacked Hawaii. Courtly Mr. Hull took the document which Admiral Nomura gave him, adjusted his spectacles, began to read...